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November 25th, 2025 at the Spine Building in Liverpool Rising levels of antimicrobial resistance threaten healthcare systems and economies worldwide. Phage therapy has proven to be an effective last-resort treatment against multidrug resistant bacterial infections, but faces multiple barriers to its widespread use. Join our inter-disciplinary panel of speakers to discuss the advances, challenges, and […]

We had a fun and productive time at year’s lab retreat at the Budock Vean hotel with the Westra lab! Despite the rainy weather and golfers getting soaked outside the window, we were snug and warm inside catching up with our lab members’ work with a relaxing two days of presentations fueled by plenty of tea. […]

Stineke van Houte is one of the organizers for the upcoming Royal Society Meeting in London on the ecology and evolution of microbial immune systems, 30 Sept – 01 Oct 2024. Both in-person and online attendance are available. Details can be found here. We hope to see you there!

Our lab retreat in collaboration with the Westra lab at the Budock Vean hotel in Mawnan Smith was a great success! It was a wonderful chance to catch up on what our lab members have been working on over a relaxed two days of presentations, kayaking, and a fierce ping-pong battle.

Due to the COVID pandemic we had to organise the 2021 edition of the annual CRISPR meeting online. Although it was such a shame not to be able to catch up with our CRISPR friends from around the globe, the virtual meeting was a great success! Check out our CRISPR2021 website here.

Stineke recently wrote a review for Cell Host & Microbe together with the Westra lab and Raymond Staals & Jurre Steens from Wageningen University on phage-CRISPR co-evolutionary interactions. 

From the 6th-8th of June, we were active at the Royal Cornwall Show with an activity stand teaching families about bacteria, phages, and antibiotic resistance. David and Ellie teamed up with the Westra lab to talk to countless children and their parents over these three days and got them enthusiastic about bacteria, bringing across why antibiotic resistance […]

July 2018 – AccessLab David took part in this event, set up by FoAM Kernow in collaboration with NERC and the British Science Association. By pairing researchers with members of the public, AccessLab aims to increase accessibility of research, to introduce members of the public to finding and judging scientific information, as well as to make scientists […]